FICTION
"ARDEAL(U) or Ardeal is an old Rumanian name
for TRANSYLVANIA."
FACT
ARDEAL(U) is a borrowing from old Hungarian
of ERDEL,ERDELY whose 12th century LATIN
TRANSLATION IS TRANSYLVANIA which means
"THE LAND BEYOND THE FOREST LINE" as seen
from the GREAT HUNGARIAN PLAIN.
EACH TIME WHEN SOMEONE USES THE WORD TRANSYLVANIA
THEY ARE REPRESENTING THE HUNGARIAN WAVE POINT
THAT IS "THE LAND BEYOND THE FOREST LINE"
THE ROMANIAN OFFICIALS WERE AWARE OF THAT IN 1920
WHEN THE AREA IN QUESTION WAS GIVEN TO ROMANIA FOR
THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY, YET THEY STEEL KEPT THE
ORIGINAL HUNGARIAN LATIN NAME OF THE AREA (TRANSYLVANIA),
WHY???
THEY COULD OFF EASILY REPLACED IT WITH ARDEAL(U)
or Ardeal SINCE IT IS "A OLD ROMANIAN NAME FOR
TRANSYLVANIA" OR IS IT ???
...OR MAYBE ARDEAL OR ARDEALU IS A CORRUPTED VERSION
OF ERDEL WHICH IS A VERY OLD HUNGARIAN NAME FOR THE AREA
IN QUESTION...
THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE HUNGARIAN KINGDOM
AND MOST OF EUROPE WAS LATIN UP TO THE 18-19TH CENTURY.
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